Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1887-12-23
WOLVERINE WnioPGRiNGS.


Fifty men are thrown out OF WORK by
The burning of the NewiYgo manufactur
rug works.
John Startwell OF Owosso was xii ed by
toe ears near Gaylord the 9th day.
Frank Knight, aged IL, of Tecumseh,
hung himself because he had been dtsap-
pointed in love affair. His father, who
discovered the body hanging in the barn,
has since become IA raving maniac.
Gov Luce is in favor OF the plan Of
holding state encampments at Mackinac
island # the expenses can be brought
within the appropriation
ID. Chaplin, the man who led the forces
in the railroad war at Cadillac has been
arrested.
Charlotte has put the liquor bonds up to
s go
Lester Monroe Of Kalama 90, a We teran
OF tue war of lsl2 aged "a, has Just applied
for a pension.
The old Phi Delta Theta society Of the
University of Michigan has been revived.
+. d. Pearl, OF Huron, Wayne county,
gets SO and his doctor bills paid, for in
iuries received 10y the breaking of "a bridge
III Van Buren, township de wanted 500.
The Duluth, South Shore q Atlanta road
has ordered 40 ore cars of - tons capacity
each
Shiawassee county viii vote on local OPP
tiOn about Jan IL.
Eugene Converse, the Battle Greek en-
b, szler and bigamist gets 10 years in
Jackson prison.
The u. X. q L. railroad company will
extend its lines into Missaukee county
next season to tap pine there.
Saloon keepers OF Ishpeming have or.
ganized a mutual protective association.
Similar ,sociations will be formed in al
the cite, and towns OF northern Michigan.
Martin Bake, who attempted a Grimm
al assault upon little seven-years-old 10
hanna Miller, in the suburbs Of Grand
Rapids few weeks ago, was tried, con
yicted and sentenced To Jackson for ten
years in less than two hours time.
Jimmie Collins, the counterfeiter, who
escaped from Ionia prison some weeks ago,
was captured at his home in Muskegon on
the 18th inst.
Henry Il. Stewart OF Traverse City has
been appointed agent OF the state board
OF corrections and charities for Grand
Traverse county.
Seven farmers in Byron, Kent county,
have brought suit against Auditor Gener-
al Aplin IN the Kent circuit court TO re
cover damages for the sale of their proper
~ for their failure 10 pay taxes for the
construction of the Burk Creek dam.
The Chapins who are under arrest for
shooting Gus. HeIbing IN the railroad war
al
company had not bought the right OF way
across their fathers farm Public sympa.
thy is on the side OF the Chapins
The r. a. +. VI. road has hauled $4,000,
0)) fee of logs this year
The log output OF stream, that are in
cluded in the Saginaw district" this year
= is i6S, 900, 900 feet.
The report Of the commissioners of in
ternal revenue shows that the govern.
ment received 81, bob, from this state
the past year for taxes OIL oleomar
garine.
Merrill Pratt, Pontiac pioneer cut his
throat with a pen knife and died the next
day.
An injunction has been issued restrain
ing the Jackson, Lansing a. Saginaw,
Grand Rapid, q Indiana and Flint a
ERE Marquette railroa Is from selling or
cutting timber from l5l 900 acres OF land
given to Michigan by an act Of congress
in 1851 as swamp land and afterwards
regularly patented by the state.
Larry Finn of Marquette, who beat out
his wife's brains November %, has been
convicted of murder in the second degree.
Matthew Konske was horribly mangled
hecla mine the other day. Both legs
we're torn OF and the body was behead ed
and disembDwled.
syndicate OF Chicago and Detroit
capitalist, has purcha,el the Argyll iron
mine in IshpeminS.
William oct, alias SNYDER was arrested
ia East Saginaw few day. ago for forg
ing a check for SIS on Sa ;inaw county
farmer in 1877.
William OFT, ALA, Snyder Is under ar.
rest at East Saginaw Tor forgery com.
mitted in lss5.
Catholic churches all over the state are
making preparations to properly cele-
brate the pope's jubilee. which occurs on
the Slst, that being his 18th birthday.
The body of Mrs. Gallagher OF Beaver
island, who was lost on tho Vernon dis
aster. was washed ashore a few days ago.
he was about a. wears old, and the moth
cr of eight children.